Thomas Young
Thomas Young
British physicist and Egyptologist; he revived the wave theory of light and proposed a three-component theory of color vision; he also played an important role in deciphering the hieroglyphics on the Rosetta Stone (1773-1829) [Britanski fizik in egiptolog; obudil je teorijo valovanja svetlobe in predlagal tri-komponentno teorijo barvnega vida; pomembno vlogo je imel tudi pri razvozlanju hieroglifov na Rosetinski kamni (1773-1829)]